Unraveling Forest Practice Policies in China: Subnational Comparisons through Policy Prescriptiveness Framework

Yimin Fu; Yixian Sun; Jinlong  Liu; Benjamin William  Cashore; Wenyuan  Liang

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Unraveling Forest Practice Policies in China: Subnational Comparisons through Policy Prescriptiveness Framework

Yimin Fu, Yixian Sun, Jinlong Liu, Benjamin William Cashore, Wenyuan Liang

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Abstract

Forest policy classification is critical to conducting comparisons and understanding performance variations across cases. Chinese-style forest policy has been in a black box to many outsiders, who tend to assume a decentralization policy model due to a great diversity of forest and socio-economic conditions in China. To test this hypothesis, we used the policy prescriptiveness framework to classify on-the-ground forest practice policies in central government and eight provinces, covering extensive territorial variations. We found that the eight subnational cases that implemented local policies appeared to be consistent with central policies, but there were also subtle differences within them. Our findings show that China utilized centralized and top-down policy models.

Original language	English
Article number	927
Number of pages	16
Journal	Forests
Volume	15
Issue number	6
Early online date	26 May 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/f15060927
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2024

Data Availability Statement

The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available
from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Gus Greenstein, Ruiting Liang and Catherine Rothacker for
their research assistance

Funding

This research was funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, Grant number 23CGL031)

Funders	Funder number
National Natural Science Foundation of China	23CGL031
National Natural Science Foundation of China

Keywords

forest policy regulations
policy prescriptiveness framework
subnational comparison

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Forestry

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